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President · Comoros

Ikililou Dhoinine

29 recorded engagements, 2011–2015: 29 visits and 1 signed agreement.

Open in the interactive map Comoros country profile
29Engagements
29Visits
0Phone calls
0Video conferences
1Signed agreements
16Destination countries
23Multilateral summits
2011–2015Years in LEAD

Biography

Comorian politician

Ikililou Dhoinine (Arabic: إكليل ظنين, born 14 August 1962) is a Comorian politician who served as the ninth President of the Comoros from 2011 to 2016; he was Vice-President of the Comoros from 2006 to 2011.

== Political career ==

Dhoinine won the 2010 Comorian presidential election, in which he received the most votes in the first round (28.19%). He faced Mohamed Said Fazul and Abdou Djabir in a run-off election and received 61.12% to win the Presidency. A member of the ruling party, Dhoinine was supported in the election by incumbent President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. Previously, he had worked in the Ministry of Finance as the Vice-President in charge of Budget and Women's Entrepreneurship. From 26 March to 31 March 2008, he was the provisional President of Anjouan, an island in the Comoros.

Dhoinine, a pharmacist by training, is the first President of Comoros from the island of Mohéli.

Dhoinine served for five years as Vice President to outgoing president Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. He was also temporarily President of Anjouan in March 2008. He was briefly Minister of Finance from June 2009 to June 2010.

At his inauguration Dhoinine pledged to "stop at nothing in the fight...

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Where they travelled

Comoros   Visited or called (darker = more often)

Most-visited countries

  • United States of America6
  • Saudi Arabia4
  • Tanzania2
  • Qatar2
  • Equatorial Guinea2
  • Kuwait2
  • Ethiopia2
  • Sudan1
  • Iraq1
  • Malaysia1
  • Oman1
  • Italy1

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations29
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs23
  • Trade and Economic Relations4
  • Education and Culture1

Activity by year

2011: 3 engagements2012: 5 engagements2013: 6 engagements2014: 6 engagements2015: 9 engagements20112015

Signed agreements

Where the agreement's title was not recorded, its type or category is shown, as coded in the dataset.

DatePartnerWhat was signed
2014-06-28EthiopiaHigh-level politics

Every recorded engagement

DateTypeDestinationAgreements
2011-09-23Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York
2011-10-30 – 2011-10-31VisitSudan · Khartoum
2011-12-10 – 2011-12-11VisitTanzania · Dar es Salaam
2012-03-06 – 2012-03-08Visit SummitQatar · Doha
2012-03-27 – 2012-03-29Visit SummitIraq · Baghdad
2012-08-14 – 2012-08-16Visit SummitSaudi Arabia · Riyadh
2012-09-27Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York
2012-12-05 – 2012-12-07Visit SummitMalaysia · Kuala Lumpur
2013-01-21 – 2013-01-23Visit SummitSaudi Arabia · Riyadh
2013-03-24 – 2013-03-26Visit SummitQatar · Doha
2013-06-28 – 2013-06-30Visit SummitTanzania · Dar es Salaam
2013-08-20 – 2013-08-24Visit SummitEquatorial Guinea · Malabo
2013-09-25Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York
2013-12-15 – 2013-12-17VisitOman · Muscat
2014-03-23 – 2014-03-25Visit SummitKuwait · Kuwait City
2014-04-02 – 2014-04-03Visit SummitItaly · Rome
2014-06-24 – 2014-06-26Visit SummitEquatorial Guinea · Malabo
2014-06-28 – 2014-06-30Visit SummitEthiopia · Addis AbabaAgreement signedHigh-level politics
2014-08-04 – 2014-08-05Visit SummitUnited States of America · Washington
2014-09-26Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York
2015-01-13 – 2015-01-15Visit SummitKuwait · Kuwait City
2015-01-18VisitMadagascar · Antananarivo
2015-01-30 – 2015-01-31Visit SummitEthiopia · Addis Ababa
2015-09-30Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York
2015-11-06 – 2015-11-07VisitSaudi Arabia · Jeddah
2015-11-15 – 2015-11-16Visit SummitSaudi Arabia · Riyadh
2015-12-01 – 2015-12-03Visit SummitFrance · Paris
2015-12-04 – 2015-12-05Visit SummitSouth Africa · Johannesburg
2015-12-29 – 2015-12-30VisitSeychelles · Victoria

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22898778 [Ikililou Dhoinine leader profile. Accessed 26 September 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/leaders/ikililou-dhoinine.html]